MOPanfisher

I am of the "if in doubt, set the hook" school of training. Even on crappie I set the hook with a short snap.of the rod, I watch my wife just reeling faster and she will lose over half of them. On walleye I often set the hook twice, I hate having them come loose. On my normal light tackle I keep th drag set so that on the hook set it will slip just a little, I live to hear that zzztt when I set the hook.

You are 100% correct, well except for the fact that St Thomas is on the Osage and th control point on the Missouri is at Herman I believe. Also the fact that those are the only 2 control points that matter, not LOZ. Otherwise you are spot on. I am done.

Well put in your foreast on the weather (in weekly increments from Feb through May) and we will see how many you get right. Unless there are some really crazy conditions, the level on LOZ doesn't affect whether or not Truman releases water. LOZ has the option of holding it, generating with it, or dumping it.

Was a perfect afternoon to mix up a couple more loaves of yeasty bread. I may just have warm bread, butter and jam for supper!

Awesome, I will repeat it for you then, even slower. I just dont understand why LOZ had to make an emergency opening of their gates yesterday. I mean they could have dropped several feet of water over the last couple months, and they don't have any storage above "normal" to utilize. Should have dropped that old heifer about 20 feet to accommodate the chance there might be a big rain sometime in the future.

Yep, truly bizarre. Who knew that when you get a big rain with a lot of runoff that the lakes would raise to accommodate the extra water. Weird, almost like they were designed that way.

I despise water saver toilets. A few years ago while utilizing the facilities at a Lowes in Spfld I flushed the toilet and it was like a "power flush", lasted maybe 2 seconds. Being me I promptly pulled the topportunity off the tank and found some sort of pressurized tank in it that caused it to flush like it was possessed by a demon. Never followed up to see what the heck it was, but could see it being a bad thing if installed in some old house with questionable plumbing, explosive even.

The tang of the burnt hair set it apart and makes it much better than say a big ole water snake skinned and chunked up and cooked over a fire. Which might havee been better if we had marinated it in beer before we ate it instead of during and after, cheap walmart shoes got nothing on that for taste and texture. Seems like many of the odd things I have eaten have beer somewhere involved, like a jar of pickled (not canned) carp at a conference one time, sober it was, in a word, terrible. One of the other weird things I have eaten that was pretty good was sandhill crane, which was chunked up, rolled in seasoned flour and deep fried, was a very beef like texture and flavor.

LOL I have to take one every 4 years I think for work. We have used Army one and GSA one. You even get a pre-test to gauge your expertise. I once went through it and did better on the pretest than I did on the post test?

Dang it, my reply reminds me I have to go clean out a cat litter box. 😣

Well you may be in luck, the best way is filleted breast, tenderize it a little, wrap.it around a sliver of jalapeno, season it, wrap in bacon and grill it hot. Of course duck, dove and maybe cat turds are edible that way.

Honestly to me it tasted very much like dove or duck. Certainly not the worst wild game I ever ate, but nowhere near the best either.

It has been known to happen.

Like many things, Crows and ground hogs aren't bad eating. Have eaten them both. Not enough so to me to go out on any given day to go get some for supper. However like Bill I have to eat a fair bit of crow at work and around home.

My grandma once collected the carcasses of some crappie filleted and took them home to fry. We don't even leave the skin on suckers anymore. Trout, i don't even know when the lady time I ate a trout was, don't care if I ever eat another one or not. Smaller fish like greenies on a creek bank, scaled and head/gut out are pretty tasty just on a stick with some salt, just thinking about that brings back memories.

I just hope he isn't doing it while he is supposed to be watching the security monitors. 😀

If you have the money and want to buy 1000 acres and just manage it for hunting, I say go for it. I wish I had that option. Heck most toys don't pay for themselves either.

I fillet everything anymore, might had some folks upset at me but never paid them any mind. The can eat their whole and raw if they wish I dont care.

5 guys from desert countries at LOZ and who would expect 5them to ask questions? Guarantee they could get more and more accurate information about the Lake and Dam from a 30 second Google search than from some locals is a resturant. They drive back to base in a flood, at night, on ozarks roads, yep sounds like the same guys who didn't kill Epstein for sure.

Are you talking about the 5 guys that went off the road and drowned in 2015? https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.military.com/daily-news/2015/12/30/state-department-mum-on-identities-five-foreign-troops-drowned.html/amp

Did they float the wrong section of river and a hostile landowner get them?

I am afraid I would break something trying to get the reel seat and stuff off of an old rod. My only chance would be to get it all off and put on a Tennessee type handle.

I only know a few people of Iranian or Persian lineage, like most they live their counter of Iran but the Iranian Government doesn't receive any of their support or like. If my dentist was any more pale American he would be albino. My oncologist is Pakistani (I think) and if he decides to kill me he will probably succeed but I am sure I have a better chance of being killed in a car accident on the way to see him than of him doing me in. I do like the advice of buying ammo and tackle, maybe I can squeeze another fire arm or two in as well, just for National Security reasons of course. I aint gonna buy any goats though or any stock in Walmart. I heard President Trump.had a team.doing research on Iran, turns out there aren't any Walmarts in Iran, they are all Targets.

I am using 8# Nanofil and tying it o either 6# Pline or last night 6# Stren golden. I haven't given up on it but last night I just didn't have the dexterity to make it work. I am gonna try a couple things to maybe hold the mono while I weave/twist the Nanofil to it. A big paper clip or maybe a clothes pin, something.

I tried the FG knot again last night. Have been sick for a few days. Hands shaking, and finally issued a few epithets that caused the dog to get up and move away from me. Failure, but man that one knot I got to work was so pretty.